Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2025

DOI

10.18260/1-2--56850

Publication Title

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Pages

12 pp.

Conference Name

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 22-25, 2025, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

A growing number of manufacturers are recognizing significant financial and environmental benefits from adopting sustainable business practices. Sustainable manufacturing refers to the production of goods through processes that are economically sound, minimize environmental impact, and conserve energy and natural resources. Lean engineering, a comprehensive approach to decision-making and leadership within manufacturing organizations, has proven effective in driving sustainable practices. Key strategies include waste elimination, value identification, value stream mapping, flow creation, pull system establishment, and continuous improvement. Both lean manufacturing and sustainability share a common focus on minimizing waste. Lean principles address seven types of waste: transport, inventory, motion, waiting, over-processing, overproduction, and defects. By reducing waste, lean manufacturing improves collaboration, monitors opportunities for improvement, and ensures that only the necessary products are produced, minimizing environmental harm caused by operations. Lean tools, such as Value Stream Mapping (VSM), play a crucial role in identifying and mitigating environmental waste. The concept of continuous improvement, embodied in Kaizen, encourages efforts to reduce energy consumption and material waste. This paper will present integration of Engineering for One Planet (EOP) framework into the Lean Engineering course within the Engineering Technology Department, Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program. This curriculum revision integrates learning outcomes from three key topics in the EOP framework: Environmental Literacy, and Responsible Business and Economy

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© 2025 American Society for Engineering Education.

ASEE holds the copyright on this document. It may be read by the public free of charge. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories with the following citation: © 2025 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference.

Original Publication Citation

Ismael, D., Jovanovic, V. M., Kuzlu, M., Lowe, C., & Bosman, L. (2025). Integrating sustainable practices into lean engineering: Applying the Engineering for One Planet framework in manufacturing engineering technology education [Paper presentation]. 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--56850

ORCID

0009-0003-7410-3045 (Ismael), 0000-0002-8626-903X (Jovanovic), 0000-0002-8719-2353 (Kuzlu)

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